Humans and apes

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>Jason de Koning wrote:
>In addition, there is plenty of morphological data that gives strong support
>to a basal position for Orangutan.  For instance, cladistic analysis of 264
>cranial/post-cranial morphological characters in Shoshani et al., showed
>strong support for (O(G(HC)).  (Mol Phyl Evol 1996, 5:102-154)  This is not
>a molecules versus morphology question.

I agree with Jason. The man-chimp clade is not supported only by sequence data.

See also Veronique Barriel' 97 paper, (Pan paniscus and Hominoid phylogeny: 
morphological
data, molecular data and "total evidence" Folia primatologica, 68, 1, 
50-56) which reviews 75 osteological & dental morphological characters, and 
takes into account Schwartz's synapomorphies. The result there also is 
clearly man-chimp clade...

Best regards,

Agnes Dettai


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Agn?s Dettai
Th?se 3e ann?e
Service de Syst?matique Mol?culaire
D?partement de Syst?matique
Mus?um National d'Histoire Naturelle
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Agn?s Dettai
Th?se 3e ann?e
Service de Syst?matique Mol?culaire
D?partement de Syst?matique
Mus?um National d'Histoire Naturelle
43 rue Cuvier
75005 Paris
tel : 33 1 40 79 37 51
fax : 33 1 40 79 38 44
adettai at mnhn.com
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